Agreed, the problem with ternary on a binary level is that it requires twice the bit width to represent it. For example a normal binary element is 0/1 now you n

Agreed, the problem with ternary on a binary level is that it requires twice the bit width to represent it. For example a normal binary element is 0/1 now you need, -1/0/+1, in turn you now need two 0/1 0/1 to represent a ternary which is inefficient. It also means it is incomplete as there will always be a 4th binary placeholder. Putting 3 into 2 is wasteful. I would prefer if we just made some silicon for this.